Dear Joi Ito, Reid Hoffman, Eileen Donahoe, David Hornik, Jennifer Lerner, James Manyika, Martha Minow, Amanda Nguyen, Laurene Powell Jobs, Jamila Raqib, Maria Zuber, and other fellow Selection Committee members for the MIT Disobedience Awards:
I was stunned and dismayed by Joi's email disclosing his extensive involvement, personally and through MIT, with Jeffrey Epstein. It is even harder to understand how this relationship could have begun and burgeoned in 2013, years after Epstein pled guilty to sex charges involving minor children. And it boggles the mind that this involvement spanned Epstein-tainted donations to MIT as well as investments in Joi's personal funds.
I'm struggling to find a way to make sense of this situation that does not lead me to write the sentence "Respected tech and academic leader raised money from convicted pedophile and leveraged that institutional connection to personally profit from the relationship." I am not trying to be unkind, but I would need help to understand why this se